Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Stars Quotes , Powerful Quotes

Let us labor for an inward stillness-- An inward stillness and an inward healing. That perfect silence where the lips and heart Are still, and we no longer entertain Our own imperfect thoughts and vain opinions, But God alone speaks to us and we wait In singleness of heart that we may know His will, and in the silence of our spirits, That we may do His will and do that only

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Healing Quotes , Heart Quotes

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Success Quotes

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Leadership Quotes , Work Quotes

The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye-not creation, but insight.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Art Quotes , Eye Quotes

Every human heart is human.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Heart Quotes

Nothing that is can pause or stay; / The moon will wax, the moon will wane, / The mist and cloud will turn to rain, / The rain to mist and cloud again, / Tomorrow be today.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Change Quotes , Rain Quotes

Take this sorrow to thy heart and make it part of thee, and it shall nourish thee till thou art strong again.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Art Quotes , Strong Quotes

Were a star quenched on high,For ages would its light,Still travelling downward from the sky,Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies,For years beyond our ken,The light he leaves behind him liesUpon the paths of men.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Stars Quotes , Men Quotes

Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Art Quotes , Two Quotes

As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Learning Quotes , Fire Quotes

I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Happiness Quotes

After a day of cloud and wind and rain Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again, And touching all the darksome woods with light, Smiles on the fields until they laugh and sing, Then like a ruby from the horizon's ring, Drops down into the night.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Rain Quotes , Sunset Quotes

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Forgiveness Quotes

A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Pain Quotes , Rain Quotes

For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language; - on earth it is called Forgiveness!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Forgiveness Quotes , Sweet Quotes

Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Time Quotes , Glasses Quotes

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Love Quotes , Life Quotes

The Wreck of the Hesperus But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Father Quotes , Frozen Quotes